Co-organized by Creative Commons China Mainland and Artintern, and with additional support from a number of organizations including Inter Art Center, Hudong wiki, and mash4, the Remix and Share: CC Art Exhibition was open on December 13, 2009 in Inter Art Center, 798 Art Zone, Beijing. More than 200 participants, including artists presenting their works, the media, invited guests from various fields, and the project team and volunteers of CC China Mainland, came to attend the opening ceremony.
The exhibition presents CC-licensed art works from artists across the country. It received so much responses that during just a one month period, more than 200 artists have submitted works in various forms including new media, devices, videos, easel painting, etc. Works presented at the exhibit are from more than 60 artists, selected to match the size of the venue and theme of the event. Some well-known Chinese artists including Cao Fei, Yan Jun, Wu Xiaojun and Liu Wei are also invited to present their CC licensed works at the exhibit.

The opening ceremony started by 3:00 p.m. Opening remarks were then given byProf. Chunyan Wang of Renmin University of China, Project lead of Creative Commons China Mainland,; Mr. Hong Wu, curator of the exhibition and founder of Artintern ; Dr. Kathleen Hartford, Programme Officer of the Ford Foundation; Dr. Haidong Pai, CEO of Hudong.com; Dr. Tyng-Ruey Chuang of Institute of Information Science of Academia Sinica, Project Lead of CC Taiwan; Mr. Escher Tsai, artist and curator from Taiwan and Prof. Yahong Li of Hong Kong University, and other distinguish guests also presented at the opening ceremony.  Prof. Chunyan Wang offered welcome remarks and addressed to the audience about the purposes of organizing this exhibition together with the art circle: to start and promote legal share of local art works, to encourage creative activities and to promote creative collaboration. She indicated that the CC licenses are intended to promote the concept of share under a series of reasonable guidelines, and emphasised that the creativity of a society is always based on the abundance of existing knowledge achievements. She also introduced the various promotional activities of CC China Mainland since its establishment. The project is devoted to the promotion of Creative Commons in various fields, including education, science, culture, art, etc. This exhibition has received wide responses from contemporary artists. The acceptance of these licenses by artists illustrated that this flexible copyright option has gained significant recognition in the circle of contemporary art in China.

Curator of the exhibition, Mr. Wu Hong introduced the concept of the event: as the Internet brought about an integration of creative works from all over the world, made available that netizens worldwide spontaneously organize these works to develop new content, the Internet is becoming a knowledge platform with the spirit of “share, remix and reuse – legally”. Everyone is the user and at the same time the contributor. What’s more, the history of human beings witnessed that the development of civilization is based on existing knowledge achievements. In order to protect the interest of innovators and authors, and to promote the advancement of human knowledge properly, with the background of modern contract spirit, the human beings now choose to step to a new era of legally share, remix and reuse.

Professor Kathleen Hartford, Programme Officer of the Ford Foundation explained the significance of a balanced copyright protection by quoting the principles of American copyright law, and emphasised the importance of legal share and reuse as promoted by CC China Mainland. CEO of Hudong.com, one of co-organizers of this event, Dr. Pan Haidong addressed the collaboration between Hudong wiki and CC China Mainland and the distinctive feature of Hudong wiki – the public participation, and its integration with Creative Commons.
In the end, Mr. Zhu Handong, co-curator of the exhibition and project manager of CC China Mainland announced the list of participating artists.

Also, the whole project team of Creative Commons China Mainland presented in the ceremony to extend their gratitude to the artists and the public. Because of a strong recognition of open copyright protection and of legal share of knowledge achievements by the society, the team worked collaboratively with Creative Commoners, devoting themselves to CC promotional works during all off-hours. What’s more, a lot of CC volunteers are also active in this occasion. They have contributed to the preparation, the opening ceremony and the forum. It is the collaborative devotion from volunteers and the project team that ensured the success of this exhibition.

“Remix and Share” Cross-Domain Forum
After the opening ceremony, Artists and members from CC China Mainland, joined by project leads and representatives from Creative Commons Asia-Pacific Region including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia, convened a forum under the theme of the exhibition: “Remix and Share”.
The forum was chaired by Curator of the exhibition, Mr. Wu Hong and Vice-director of Tsinghua Institute for Internet Behaviour, team member of CC China Mainland, Dr. Li Xu. It focused on the concept of “remix and share”, with an additional special session for experiences sharing between CC Asia-Pacific regions’ project teams in promotional activities. Representatives from the regions introduced and discussed the promotion of CC in their own jurisdictions, with special focuses on the exploration and practices of “art and share”.
In this forum, Mr. Kong Lingqian, board member of the advisory Board of CC China Mainland and founder of Kong Bohua TCM School, delivered a great speech to the audience. He started by analyzing the soul of share with theories of Confucius, and shared with the guests the ideas in cultural phenomenon of “remix” and “share”.

Dr. Tyng-Ruey Chuang, research fellow of Institute of Information Science of Academia Sinica and Project Lead of CC Taiwan delivered a presentation titled Collaborative works and Public License to describe the practices of CC Taiwan. After that, another guest from Taiwan, well known new media artist Mr. Escher Tsai shared his experience from the aspect of new media with a speech titled Path of CC. He also made an introduction of the Playaround Workshop 2009 activity, an event currently taking place in Taipei, and discussed with the audience on how to view the concept of share.
Shen Yi, a participating artist also shared her opinions on “remix” as an approach of authoring, and on the importance of share to young artists. The artists strongly recognized the concept of “Remix and Share”, which they believed to be an embodiment of the vigor of contemporary art communities in China.

Legal Lead of CC Hong Kong (CCHK), Professor Li Yahong from University of Hong Kong introduced the general situation of CCHK. . Project team member of CC Australia, Mr. Sampsung Shi introduced the development of CC Australia in 2009, and shared with the participants their experiences In the end, Ms. He Xiaolin of CC China Mainland introduced the local project’s promotional activities and achievements since the release of CC China Mainland version in 2006.
In this occasion, guests, artists and other participants were coming from various regions and having different professional background; their brainstorm has perfectly illustrated one of CC’s principles: Public Participation. Professor Wang Chunyan addressed that CC China Mainland will continue to organize activities like this forum, and extend to all coverable fields. She welcomed the support of CC China Mainland and promotion of CC’s concept from everyone.

CC Global Birthday Celebration

After that, the project team offered the global birthday party as a surprise to visiting CC supporters. Following the cross-domain forum, CC China Mainland project team invited artists and other participants to dinner. Instead of the Chinese-style dinner party of previous years, the team presented this time a Chinese cuisine buffet. Guests comfortably gathered into several groups, discussing CC and its development while enjoying the dinner. The lights were warm and Christmas tree shone brightly, laughter and applause were heard while kids’ playing around the venue…

All the sudden all lights faded and songs began to be sung: ”Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to CC, Happy Birthday to you…”Then with much enthusiasm, project team member of CC China Mainland, Ms. Liu Ping announced : “Now it is the time for CC’s Global Birthday Party. In the coming week, CC project teams in different time zones of the world will celebrate the 7th anniversary of CC licenses respectively.”

Two fruit birthday cakes, surrounded by volunteers and children, were presented with big letters “Happy 7th Birthday CC” on their top. With applause and blessings, CC China Mainland Project Lead, Professor Wang Chunyan, Professor Li Yahong from University of Hong Kong, Mr. Wu Hong, curator of the exhibition and Professor Tyng-Ruey Chuang from Academia Sinica of Taiwan cut the cake together for all the participants. . Happiness was seen on everyone’s face. Filled with orange light and warm scent of the cake, the venue provided a more harmonious atmosphere to make everyone even happier.
We are reason to believe that, with the active participation and warm attention of creators and users, and the help of its affiliate institution, Law School of Renmin University of China and other supporting organizations, Creative Commons China Mainland will continue its path on promoting the open copyright concept, in a more active and innovative manner to improve the legal share and reuse of the society.

Translated by Yang Fei,  Photo by Feng Qian and SOS

Co- Organizer: Creative Commons China Mainland,  Artintern

Coopration:Inter Art Center、Hudong Online、MASH4

Curator: Wu Hong, Zhu Handong

Advisor: Na Risong

Opening Ceremony: December 13, 2009 (Sunday) 15:00

Exhibition Duration: December 13, 2009 – December 27, 2009

Location: Inter Art Center, 798 Art Zone, Beijing

Co- Organized by Creative Commons China Mainland, and Artintern with additional support from Inter Art Center, Hongdong.com and mash4, the Remix and Share: CC Art Exhibition will be open on December 13, 2009 in Inter Art Center, 798 Art Zone, Beijing.

The CC licensed Artworks exhibition received overwhelming response – more than 200 artists submitted their works during just a one month period. Submissions are in various forms including new media, device, video, easel painting, etc. Works presented in this exhibition are from more than 60 artists and are selected from hundreds submission. Some well-known Chinese artists including Cao Fei, Yao Dajun, Yan Jun, Wu Xiaojun, Liu Wei are also invited to present their CC licensed works at the exhibit.

The acceptance of CC licenses by artists illustrates that this flexible copyright option is gaining significant recognition in the field of contemporary art in China.  The licenses are optional, they facilitates the public to identify the author’s attitude towards his/her work, and reduces procedures of unnecessary communications to improve distributions to be wider and faster. Its core value exists in encouraging the authors to voluntarily share his/her authoring with the public while completely understanding his/her rights, and contribute his/her work as a material of authoring by granting certain copyright to the public. This will improve the share and distribution in culture and art to a greater extent, and finally create a social atmosphere where people are sharing knowledge achievements of the others legally. The promotion of CC licenses will help the artists to re-evaluate his/her copyright and to respect the knowledge achievements of the others. More importantly, it will also spread the concept of share, cooperation and remix to further promote the creativity in artistic languages and artistic behaviours, exerting a profound influence on the art field.

In this occasion, we have specially invited a number of well known artists including Cao Fei, Yao Dajun, Yan Jun, Wu Xiaojun, Liu Wei to exhibit their works. This is the very first time for a large scale exhibition of CC-licensed art works in CCi (CC International) since the release of Creative Commons licenses 7 years before. On the opening day, project leads or representatives from CC International Asia-Pacific Region including Philippine, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, will come to convene a forum under the theme of this exhibition with participating artists.

Remix and Share: CC Art exhibition will be supremely worthy of expectation in the end of year 2009.

Special thanks to the Ford Foundation who has generously supported Creative Commons China Mainland.

List of participating artists:

Videos:

Cao Fei, Cao Shu, Chen Hao and Li Xiaoyu, Chen Xuegang, Huang Ying, Lei Benben, Lin Fangsuo, Liu Wei, Liu Qiming, Shen Yi, Xia Shu

Devices and New media:

Chen Youtong, Chen Yun, Deng Zhongyun, Hai Yuan, He Xiaoquan, Huang Cheng, Xie Xiaobing, Lin Mo, Liu Xun, Liu Liguo, Ma Xiaoyu and Gao Ming, Wu Xiaojun, Yan Hang, Yan Jun, Yi Xuan, Yi Yan, Zhang Hao, Zhi Xin

Photography:

Chen Weiqun, Du Hanning, Feng Fangyu, Gao Yuan, Hu Zhengdong, Jiang Pengyi, Lin SHu, Lei Yang, Li Ming, Li Fang, Ma Kang, San Shui, Tian Taiquan, Wang Tiewei, Wang Tong, Yu Lei, Zhang Wei, Zhang Yin

Drawings:

Chen Lei, Jiang Peng, Liang Yue, Lin Guocheng, Liu Chang, Lu Ming, Ma Zhimin, Wu Yiqiang, Yang Wenping, Ye Qiang, Zang Kunkun, Zhang Jianjun, Zhang Lin

Venue: Inter Art Center, 798 Art Zone, Beijing

Contact information for consulting and media inquiries:

Mr. Zhu Handong, Mobile: 13601136018; Ms. He Xiaolin, Mobile 13466687857

E-mail：ccremix@cn.creativecommons.org

Website: http://cn.creativecommons.org/   知识共享.中国 (Chinese Domain)

November 29th, 2009 at 2:00 p.m., more than 40 new or veteran CC volunteers and people concerned with CC movements gathered together in Law School of Renmin University to have a face-to-face brainstorm with Creative Commons China Mainland project team on CC-related issues. Participants are from various institutions and organizations including Renmin University of China, Tsinghua University, China University of Political Science and Law, Hudong.com and Beijing Opensource User Group. The event marks the launch of CC Clinic Program.

Since its establishment, Creative Commons China Mainland has held a variety of salon events, which have done excellent promotion for CC concept in the public, CC licensing options among authors and the popularity of CC movement itself. But this is the very first time of volunteers’ salon. It is intended to strengthen the communication between CC volunteers, and to develop more volunteers in people willing to contribute to the project.

At the beginning of the event, CC China Mainland project lead, Prof. Chunyan Wang from Law School of Renmin University gave an introduction to the history of Creative Commons China Mainland, allowing the audience a deeper understanding of CC project, its licenses and current situation in China.

Then He Xiaolin presented a slideshow of images showing all events held by the project team since the release of CC China Mainland version: the CC Salons, CC Global Birthday Party, the two widely publicized CC photography contests, International symposium on Common Use Licensing for Scientific Literature and Data 2009, Knowledge Sharing and Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage – Forum on Cultural Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the interactive events between CC China Mainland and CC International.

Then afterwards, Project Manager Zhu Handong made an introduction of the year-end event: Remix & Share: CC Art Show, and invited volunteers to participate. The invitation received enthusiastic response. Then Liu Ping showed CCQ magazine to the audience. The magazine serves as a promotion platform for the project, designed to carry Creative Commons from “online” cyber world to the offline lives. Until now, there have been four CCQ magazines published, setting a lively and quite perceivable image for CC project, as it used to be seemingly complicated for common people. Unlike regular publications, CCQ is the teamwork of all volunteers. Its open team structure enables everyone to be its journalist or editor. The participants were so intensely interested and they volunteered to its acquisitioning and processing work eagerly.

Shu Jianwei and Yuan Zhiyong, Formal CC volunteers, shared with the participants their stories and gaining with CC. Volunteers and guests responded overwhelmingly and expressed their ideas.

The subsequent brainstorm is on the facilitation of CC open-copyright concept to legal share of knowledge resources by the society. Participants also offered constructive suggestions and ideas for the development of CC project: new ideas and new columns for CCQ magazine, sustainable promotion plan based on CC’s target and communication platform ideas for volunteers. In the end, all volunteers, new or veteran, extended their best wishes to Creative Commons.

This salon marks the launch of CC Clinic Program. In this program, CC China Mainland will rearrange the existing volunteer group and establish a relatively fixed team, to better support the upcoming activities, such as the exhibition Remix and Share – CC Art Show. In future, Creative Commons China Mainland will organize more communication activities for volunteers, to further promote CC licenses and its concept: Share, remix, reuse – legally.

Organizer: Creative Commons China Mainland
Sponsor: the Ford Foundation
Coopration:Inter Art Center、Artintern、Hudong Online、MASH4
Exhibit Location: Inter Art Center, 798 Art Space, Beijing
Curator: Wu Hong
Advisor: Na Risong
Executive Curator: Zhu Handong

“Remix and Share” stems from the basic principle of CC: Share, Remix, Reuse – Legally. Remix, an approach of creation, includes a number of modern art phenomenon frequently observed in artistic creations, such as appropriation, conversion, etc. And Share, a voluntarily giving conduct, is actually an exchange from which the author may obtain more resources legally for his/her creation. The “Remix and Share” Exhibition promotes a public-interest-oriented spirit of share and cooperation. It intends to reveal the ecology of art featuring mutual integration and emulation, which is reflected by phenomenon known as “derivative”, “cross-borders” and “group authorship”. In this occasion, novel visional creations revealing the contemporary cultural integration and symbiosis from its own aspect are welcomed from artistic people in all fields.
In this December, Creative Commons China Mainland will present a CC licensed overall art exhibit on the theme of “remix & share” , with support from Inter Art Center, Artintern, Hudong Online, and MASH4. Artists are invited to submit their works from today onwards. A CC-licensed album for exhibited works, titled Remix and Share, will be distributed during the exhibition. There will also be a forum on this topic as well. Creative Commons China Mainland is working to help promote the international exchange and cooperation for Chinese contemporary art through various ways such as the global CC platform.

Submission Guidelines:
1. All individuals and organizations are welcomed to submit their works for the exhibition. The Organizers will also invite some renowned artist to present theirs artworks;
2. Please submit your picture in JPG form with width no more than 1000 pixels, and name it with your own name and its title, media, and size. Attach it with a description and your resume, and your contact information: name, address, telephone and e-mail;
3. For video works, please submit the weblink, or submit on discs, which will not be returned whether accepted or not;
4. The Organizers will have experts to review the submitted works, and will afterwards inform the artists to submit printing information for the album, along with their contact information. Artists whose works have not been accepted will not be specially informed. A list of accepted artist will be announced by the beginning of December, 2009 along with the exhibition’s dates and location;
5. All works exhibited shall be CC-licensed, and the submission of works shall be accompanied with such licenses (see attached). Please do not submit any non-CC-licensed works. For details of Creative Commons licenses, please refer to below introductions or consult with Creative Commons China Mainland;
6. The Exhibition is free for charge;
7. A CC-licensed album of the exhibited works will be distributed on the opening ceremony. Each artist will get two copies as gift;
8. The expiry date of submission is November 20, 2009.

Contact Information :
E-mail: ccremix@cn.creativecommons.org
Mailing address: Inter Art Center, Sevenstar Main Street 798 Art Zone, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing (with remarks “Remix & Share Exhibition” )
Telephone: 010-59789029
Website: http://cn.creativecommons.org/
Contacts: Zhu Handong, 13601136018 (Mobile Phone) and He Xiaolin, 13466687857 (Mobile Phone)

On September 23, 2009, the Copyright Management Team from Digital Resources Department of National Library of China (NLC) has made the first work meeting with CC China in Mingde Building, Renmin University of China (RUC). The participants include: 8 librarians, including team lead Mr. Li Huawei, of the NLC Team; Professor Wang Chunyan from Law School of RUC, CC China Project Manager Zhu Handong and one of the project team members, Xu Jianping. They have had successful discussion on the protection and exploitation of digital resources, and on the future cooperation between NLC Digital Resources Dept and CC China to promote legitimate distribution and share of digital resources.

The meeting was started at 2:30 p.m., when Zhu Handong made an introduction to the visiting team on CC Project and its promotion in China Mainland. Then Professor Wang Chunyan gave a speech comparing differences between various approaches of copyright licenses: the open CC Licenses and the traditional means; and analyzed problems as experienced by CC China during the licenses’ localization and the solutions thereto.

Afterwards, Li Huawei, the lead of NLC Copyright Mgmt Team, introduced the status of digital copyright management in NLC, and shared their copyright-protected resources and future directions with CC China project team.

The parties then discussed approaches and targets of their future cooperation.

Artistic Director: Wu Hong

Exhibition Planner: Sheng Jingdong

Assistant of Exhibition Planner: Coral·Lu

Host: Artintern.net, CC China Mainland

If you draw, come to show how to play mud;

If you make calligraphy, come to show how to play instruments;

The simplest way is to print your work on T-shirt, bags, or tea cups;

You could also make your work into toys, variable products, such as a medal;

Please do not think the following instructions as the only choice,

Open your mind and fresh your imagination, make it fun and fresh.

Even if the idea is hard to be realized,

Join us with the project like Vinci’s blueprint.

Anyway, join us in any form, any methods;

Please send us your project in electrical form before August;

We will select 100 fabulous artists’ works, no matter famous or not, to make a 16-inch picture album. In October, an exhibition, in the way of a mini shopping-mall, would be held in one 798 gallery in Beijing. And 2 free copies of the album would be sent to the exhibition artists.

Contact details: jingdongcehua@yahoo.com.cn

Mobile: 13910820528

An International Symposium At the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing

An international symposium on Common Use Licensing for Scientific Literature and data was held on March 25, 2009 in Beijing. The idea for the symposium was developed by Creative Commons China Mainland. The symposium was co-hosted by the National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), the U.S. National Committee for CODATA of the National Academy of Science, and Creative Commons China Mainland.

This one-day symposium reviewed the rationale, practice, and issues associated with the application of Creative Commons/Science Commons “common use” licenses to scientific literature and data in government and academia. The event also explored the possible implementation of these licenses for publicly funded scientific literature and data in China.

The symposium was designed to provide a basic introduction on the subject of Creative Commons licensing to members of the scientific literature and data community. This information was designed to benefit the interests of both the science policy and the science research communities.

There was a wide array of speakers participating in the symposium, both from the PRC and from abroad, representing various institutes and constituencies. Included among them were Columbia University, Queensland University of Technology Law School, Mozilla Online China, Renmin University of China Law School, the National Research Council of the U.S., Science Commons, the National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the University of Maine, the Computer Network Information Center of CAS, and the Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resource Research of CAS.

The event brought together a large group of some 200 attendees from several universities, research institutes, governmental agencies, libraries, and the Internet sector.

Both the speakers and the participants at the symposium focused on the use of Creative Commons Licensing. Attendees from the various institutes and organizations expressed great interest in adopting CC for their databases and other scientific repositories. The National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Science (NSL), for example, has now created a platform , the Knowledge Repository of National Science Library, CAS( http://ir.las.ac.cn/; http://ir.las.ac.cn/guiter?id=5 ), to encourage scientists and authors adopt CC licenses while archiving their works on the NSL’s Knowledge Repository.

More than 150 participants gathered at the International Academic Lecture Hall at the Renmin University of China Law School on July 4, 2009. What attracted them was the Forum on Cultural Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the first ever CC interactive event on the subject of Traditional Chinese Culture in China Mainland. This was the first forum in a planned series on Knowledge Sharing and Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage initiated by Creative Commons China Mainland and the Kongbohua TCM School.

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The first Chinese book released under a local CC license (CC BY-NC-ND China Mainland) was made available on July 4, 2009 at the Forum on Cultural Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) held at Renmin University of China Law School. This was the first forum under the series on Knowledge Sharing and Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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